INDUSTRY: Anti-Trust Reform

No Federal law weighs more heavily or constantly on the mind of corporate
business than the Act of July 2, 1890 which bluntly begins: Every
contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or
conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several
States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. This law is
known as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act because its chief sponsor was John
Sherman, Ohio's Republican Senator (1861-77, 1881-97), younger brother
of General William Tecumseh ("War is Hell") Sherman.